配合中文版视频，希望我们精心录制的英文版视频对你学会英语有帮助。

I wonder if you’ve ever had the experience, where you’re at school and the teacher asks you a question, and you are not able to answer the question. Even though you actually knew what the answer was. The problem is that when the teacher asks you the question, your brain went blank and you just couldn’t remember anything. The reason for this is, when somebody asks you a question sometimes you’ll get a little bit uptight, a little bit nervous, and this can go so far as to feeling a sense of danger. And the sense of danger actually damages your memory. When we meet this sort of danger we actually go into what’s known as a fight or flight response, and all of the energy in our body is focused on saving our lives. The blood goes to our legs, are arms, our muscles on our body, our eyes change focus, our breathing changes, our whole brain gets focused on survival, so we have no energy left for memory or for learning. So you can say that getting tense or nervous absolutely can lower the efficiency of your learning to the point that it’s almost zero. You might have had the experience where you are working over time for many weeks, you weren’t sleeping very well at night, you got very, very tired, and you got to the point where you couldn’t actually remember very much. Even your own phone number; if someone asked you your phone number you just couldn’t for the life of you remember what your own number was. So, we can say with certainty that all these forms of stress will affect our learning to the point that our efficiency and effectiveness of learning is extremely low. You might have had something happen on the opposite side, where you experienced learning something quickly and easily, just a couple of time, and you’re able to remember it. And I believe that your state at that time was probably; happy, relaxed, pretty laid back. So we can say that these positive states of happiness and relaxation are really, really important for learning, and when you’re in that state you’ll learn things like facts, concepts, new languages much, much more easily.

In order to ensure the speed, the quality, the effectiveness of your learning, you absolutely have to get into the right sort of state. Now how do you do this? Well, you could go to a really nice, relaxed environment, but I guess that’s not necessarily easy for everybody. The more direct and simple way of doing it is just to listen to music. So just take a moment here and experience what happens when you listen to a short piece of music.

(Musical interlude)

Now, you’ve listened to that music for just a few seconds, but I would guess that you’ve gone into a state that is very, very different to that state that you were in before. I’m guessing that you’re in a much more awake, but much more relaxed state. This sort of state is very, very appropriate for learning new things, for remembering new things. Fifty years of research in psychology have told us that music helps people to learn much, much better, more quickly and more effectively. In response to this knowledge, when we designed Kung-Fu English we created 372 songs that are all designed to help you get into the right state in order to absorb your English much more easily, and learn the English much, much more quickly. So the result is that you have a very relaxed, rapid way of absorbing your new English.

An appropriate state is absolutely critical for good learning, and really good music is very important for helping you get into that state. So take a few more moments and just experience the feeling of being in the Kung-Fu English language learning musical environment.